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"This is the first time I see an honest producer!" - Bernard Shaw exclaimed when Gabriel Pascal, in response to the question of how much money he had, took a little change from his pockets. Pascal asked the famous playwright for permission to stage a musical based on his play. If Shaw had not been conquered by Pascal's honesty, the world probably would not have seen the magnificent musical "My wonderful lady».

This story perfectly matches the spirit of the play that Pascal drew attention to - "Pygmalion": is it really everything in the world that money decides, what happens if you support a person who has no money? The playwright puts these eternal questions in the form of a plot that echoes antique myth described in Ovid Nason's Metamorphoses: the sculptor Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a beautiful woman he created, and the goddess of love Aphrodite, condescending to his prayer, breathed life into her ... times as well in Victorian England. Poor girl Eliza Doolittle - ugly, wearing a blackened straw hat and a "reddish coat" with "mouse-colored" hair - sells flowers on the street, but the income generated by this occupation does not allow her to get out of poverty. She could improve her situation by getting a job in flower shop, but she is not taken there because of the incorrect pronunciation. To remedy this deficiency, she turns to Professor Higgins, a renowned phoneticist. He is not inclined to accept a poor girl as a student, but colleague Pickering, feeling sympathy for Eliza, offers Higgins a bet: let the professor prove that he is really a high-class specialist, and if six months later at a social reception he can pass the girl off as a duchess, let him consider himself a winner. ! The "experiment" turns out to be not easy for both the teacher and the student, suffering from Higgins' impudence and despotism, but their efforts are crowned with success: the young aristocrat Freddie Ainsworth Hill falls in love with Eliza, and at the ball where the professor leads her, representatives of high society do not hesitate to accept her for hers. But the girl not only got prettier in taking care of herself, learned good manners and correct pronunciation - she has a sense of her own dignity, she suffers from Higgins' neglect, who cannot understand the tragedy of the situation: she no longer wants to return to her former life and has no money. to start a new one. Offended by the professor's misunderstanding, she leaves his house. But Eliza's training has transformed not only the girl herself, but also Higgins: the old bachelor discovers that he is "used" to Eliza, that he misses her. Listening to the recording of her voice on the phonograph, he suddenly hears real voice returned Eliza.

This is the story that producer Gabriel Pascal decided to embody in a musical. To create music, he turned to two famous Broadway authors - composer Richard Rogers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, but both were refused (after all, as already mentioned, he had little money), but young authors agreed - composer Frederick Lowe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner. When processed into a libretto, the plot of Shaw's play underwent some changes. The afterword was not taken into account, which reported further destiny Eliza (marriage to Freddie, opening her own store) was in the spirit of Shaw, who was skeptical of romantic love, but the Broadway audience would not accept such an ending. In addition, the life of the opposite "poles" of society - the inhabitants of the poor neighborhood and the aristocrats - was shown in more detail than Shaw. The structure of the work, which received the title "My Fair Lady", is close musical comedy... Lowe's music is saturated dance rhythms- there is polka, waltz, foxtrot, and even habanera and hota.

Even before the completion of the work, the famous actress Mary Martin, who performed on Broadway, became interested in the work of Lowe and Lerner. After listening to the finished material, she exclaimed: "How could it happen that these lovely boys have lost their talent?" These words plunged Lerner into despair - however, not for long, and they still did not intend to invite Martin to the role of Eliza.

The premiere of My Fair Lady in March 1956 was a true triumph. The popularity of the musical was fantastic, and Lowe was so shocked by the success that he served coffee to people who were queuing up for tickets all night. In 1964, the musical was filmed and won an Oscar in eight nominations - including the music one, but won the award ... the person who changed the music for the film adaptation, and Frederick Lowe was not even nominated.

In 1965, the musical was first staged in the USSR, at the Moscow Operetta Theater. The role of Eliza was performed by Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga.

Year of creation: 1964

Country: USA

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Co.

Duration: 170

Musical ComedyMy fair lady"- screen version of the Broadway musical of the same name, based on the work of Bernard Shaw"Pygmalion".The plot of the film largely repeats the famous play.

The music for the film "My Fair Lady" was created by the composerFrederick Lowe,and wrote the script and lyricsAlan Jay Lerner.

Professor of PhoneticsHenry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is an inveterate bachelor. He makes a bet with his colleague, ColonelPickeringthat in three months can turn an illiterate London flower girlEliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a real lady.

The professor undertakes to teach a girl who speaks street jargon, high society manners and ideally correct speech... Upon the expiration of the declared period, Eliza must be presented at the ambassadorial ball, and if none of those present guesses about her low origin, the colonel will recognize the professor's victory and pay all the costs of training the girl.

Eliza herself hopes that good pronunciation will allow her to get a job in a flower shop.

Musical My fair lady "managed to become a legend even before the creation of the film.

For the first time, viewers saw this production on Broadway on March 15, 1956. Shaw's play was incredibly popular, and tickets were sold out six months in advance. To date, the musical "My fair lady "has been played on Broadway for over2100 once. It has been successfully demonstrated in two dozen countries and has been translated into 11 languages. The main roles in the musical were performed byRex Harrisonand an aspiring singerJulie Andrews.

When filming the film, director George Cukor chose to replaceAndrewsto the better knownAudrey Hepburn,which initially disappointed fans of the musical. There was no replacement for the leading male role in the musical, andRex Harrisonsuccessfully moved from Broadway to the big screen. This work has become finest hour actor - he received a well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor in the film "My Fair Lady".

Another contender for the role of Eliza Dolittle wasElizabeth Taylor... Choosing an actress for the main role caused some hype in the press. Audrey Hepburn was 10 years older than her heroine, did not have outstanding vocal abilities and had a reputation as a born lady. In spite of vocal lessons, Audreycould not cope with musical numbers, and the American singer became the voice of HepburnMarnie Nixon... The actress was very upset by this fact and felt that she had not coped with the role.

Movie " My fair lady "received the following awards: - 8 awardsOscarin the nominations: " Best movie"," Best Director "," Best Actor "," Top artists"," Best operator "," Best Composer”,“ Best Costumes ”,“ Best Sound ”. - 5 awardsGolden Globein the nominations: "Best Film", "Best Director", "Archer Actor", "Best Actress", " Best Actor second plan ". -British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (Best Foreign Film).

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It is difficult to write a review of This Film. Yes, yes, once Sherlock Holmes called Irene Adler This Woman, and I, having no more appropriate title, combination of words, definition in my head, will call the picture "My Fair Lady" This Film. I sincerely admire him, how it is worked out, how the spirit of that era, those characters, amazing collisions and interpretation of certain events are successfully captured. I sincerely admire him, which I wish for you, for those readers who have undertaken to read my review. I do not want to say that This Film was directed by George Cukor based on the play by Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" and on the basis of the script for the Broadway musical, which has tremendous success not only in New York, but throughout the world. For eight years he did not leave the Broadway stage, for eight years Rex Harrison, Julia Andrews, Robert Coot and Stanley Holloway delighted the audience with their performance. That’s why I don’t want to say: a film by George Cukor. This Film is all of them, and actors, and screenwriter, and composer, and artist and all-all-all.

I understand that it may seem to you that there is a lot of pathos in my review, well forgive me for such an oversight, but as I said, this Film is very difficult, at least for me, to write a review. It is in my power to tell you the plot, how good this film is and how brilliant Audrey Hepburn is, but even if I tell you all this, I will describe in all the details all the hardships ... No, it’s not that. I still will not tell you and 99% percent of what starts happening in my soul, as soon as I start to remember "My Fair Lady." I saw her for the first time quite recently, a year ago in an English lesson; then, my teacher decided that it would be great show us This Film. And she was right as never before.

I know - I speak boringly and too pretentious. It's just that now it suddenly became important for you to understand how deeply I have penetrated this Film, how colorful and incomparable it really is. It's easy to say: "This is a masterpiece, this film is incomparable and I give it all ten out of ten." Indeed, it is easy, these are just words. But sometimes, words have great value for others, and if I can truly convince you of the veracity of my words, the "incomparable" and "masterpiece" will gain much more weight in your eyes and then I will be able to breathe freely and with with a pure heart go write a term paper.

So, we will smoothly move on to the beginning of the action, to the words that matter, especially when you pronounce them correctly. The essence of the film is not that, not that you need to speak correctly, because this is the only way to get into “ elite"Oh gods, of course not! And not even about romantic story who linked the poor flower girl and the well-read gentleman professor. Everyone, in fact, will see something of their own in This Film, and then everything depends on the viewer: he can try to discern love line(I must confess, at first I did not immediately see her, but I assure you, she is!) and will stop there. However, another viewer, with a more inquisitive (I do not say "stupid" - inquisitive) mind, having reviewed the Film, can see that the play from which the "high" society returned is called "Faust", and Alfred P. Doolittle is "the most original moralist England ", from which" Wales is so rushing "- carried away to the church as a" bought "dead man. it classic, but the classic is not a decrepit old woman with wrinkles and warts, but quite a young and lively beautiful lady.

I think I tired you, so I turn to the heroes. When Rex Harrison was awarded the Best Actor Oscar, he thanked "two beautiful ladies" - Julie Andrews (Oscar winner for Best Actress in Mary Poppins) and Audrey Hepburn, presenting the gold statuette to Harrison himself. It is known that she always dreamed of playing this role, and you can see from it! - as clearly seen, as in Livanov, when he plays Holmes. The two Eliza turned out to be different, not very similar to each other (Julie Andrews is more of a "Bernardo-Show Eliza"), and nevertheless, both of them really turned out to be beautiful. Audrey Hepburn is always nice to see on the screen, but it was in this film, as it seems to me, that the viewer finally and truly understood how great she plays, how much she good, because the Spectator is helped by the effect of the "rebirth" of Audrey the flower girl into Audrey the lady.

There is a separate song about Rex Harrison. If anyone could play Professor Henry Higgins, then only he, like Livanov - Holmes - you can't beat him, because everything is played. Harrison, judging by his interviews, views, etc. (although what can I know about his views, etc.!) Is an adherent of the theater, like Viktor Gvozditsky, by the way. And this spirit of the theater, which is different from the spirit of the cinema, is undoubtedly present in his performance throughout the film. Maybe it was easier for him to play a familiar role, I don't know; I only know that when I watch My Fair Lady I can remember that Eliza is Audrey after all, but that Higgins is Harrison I can’t. Although he is the devil from Wimpole Street and endlessly repeats his vowels on gramophone records, even if at first he, albeit sharply resonating in the society of his "class", "level" (remember the races in Ascott, how he stumbles upon the umbrellas of the present " mechanism "of high society and how strangely Mrs. Ainsford Hill looks at him when Higgins, remembering the" rain in Spain "begins to click his heels like castanets), nevertheless treats Eliza as a professor to an illiterate flower girl, and still remains my favorite the character of the whole story. In fact, Eliza was very lucky, both that the chocolate was real and that Doolittle only demanded five pounds.

Talking about the songs of This Film is stupid - as much as possible talk about songs ?! -that is why I didn’t say a word about them before. You know what they are, you know, right? For what I love This Film so much, it is for the diligence with which they made, created, created "My Fair Lady"! Not only did Higgins correct Eliza's speech, but everyone contributed to the creation of a living Galatea. And even if Pygmalion was somewhat rude and not restrained in relation to the future statue, but ... Have you ever tried to carve a stone with a handkerchief? in This Film, never contradicting Bernard Shaw's play! Thanks each of you (!).

(oh gods, how ridiculous that sounds!).

Year of creation: 1964

Country: USA

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Co.

Duration: 170

Musical ComedyMy fair lady"- screen version of the Broadway musical of the same name, based on the work of Bernard Shaw"Pygmalion".The plot of the film largely repeats the famous play.

The music for the film "My Fair Lady" was created by the composerFrederick Lowe,and wrote the script and lyricsAlan Jay Lerner.

Professor of PhoneticsHenry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is an inveterate bachelor. He makes a bet with his colleague, ColonelPickeringthat in three months can turn an illiterate London flower girlEliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a real lady.

The professor undertakes to teach a girl who speaks street jargon, high society manners and perfectly correct speech. Upon the expiration of the declared period, Eliza must be presented at the ambassadorial ball, and if none of those present guesses about her low origin, the colonel will recognize the professor's victory and pay all the costs of training the girl.

Eliza herself hopes that good pronunciation will allow her to get a job in a flower shop.

Musical My fair lady "managed to become a legend even before the creation of the film.

For the first time, viewers saw this production on Broadway on March 15, 1956. Shaw's play was incredibly popular, and tickets were sold out six months in advance. To date, the musical "My fair lady "has been played on Broadway for over2100 once. It has been successfully demonstrated in two dozen countries and has been translated into 11 languages. The main roles in the musical were performed byRex Harrisonand an aspiring singerJulie Andrews.

When filming the film, director George Cukor chose to replaceAndrewsto the better knownAudrey Hepburn,which initially disappointed fans of the musical. There was no replacement for the leading male role in the musical, andRex Harrisonsuccessfully moved from Broadway to the big screen. This work became the actor's finest hour - he received a well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor in the film "My Fair Lady".

Another contender for the role of Eliza Dolittle wasElizabeth Taylor... The choice of the actress for the lead role caused a certain amount of hype in the press. Audrey Hepburn was 10 years older than her heroine, did not have outstanding vocal abilities and had a reputation as a born lady. Despite the vocal lessonsAudreycould not cope with the musical numbers, and the American singer became the voice of HepburnMarnie Nixon... The actress was very upset by this fact and felt that she had not coped with the role.

Movie " My fair lady "received the following awards: - 8 awardsOscarin the nominations: "Best Film", "Best Director", "Best Actor", "Best Artists", "Best Cinematographer", "Best Composer", "Best Costumes", "Best Sound". - 5 awardsGolden Globein the nominations: "Best Film", "Best Director", "Archer Actor", "Best Actress", "Best Supporting Actor". -British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (Best Foreign Film).

You can watch the full film in my section "Cinema"

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Two talented young authors - composer Frederick Lowe and librettist Alan Jay Lerner would never have composed their most famous musical - "My Fair Lady", if not for another star couple- Rogers and Hammerstein. The creators of "Oklahoma" refused to cooperate with film producer Gabriel Pascal, who rushed with the idea of ​​making out of famous play Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" is a musical performance and for a long time unsuccessfully tried to find authors. Lowe and Lerner appreciated the quality of the dramatic material - despite the fact that the play was published in 1912, the topics that it touched on were the person and her rights, the relationship between men and women, the culture of the language - and the culture in broad sense of this word - are relevant at all times.

The plot of the musical, which was originally called My Fair Eliza, repeats in many ways Shaw's play.

Phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his fellow linguist Colonel Pickering - he undertakes to turn a London flower girl named Eliza Doolittle, whom they meet on a rainy evening in Covent Garden, into a real lady. Higgins takes six months to rid the girl of the common pronunciation and teach her good manners. After this period, she will have to appear at the embassy ball, and if no one guesses about her social origin, Pickering will pay all the training costs, and Eliza herself will be able to go to work at the flower shop. The offer sounds tempting, and Eliza moves to the professor's house. In search of his daughter, her father, the scavenger Alfred Dolittle, comes there, and he manages to beg from Higgins five pounds in compensation for the fact that he was deprived of a wet nurse.

Learning is not easy for Eliza, sometimes the heartlessness and despotism of the teacher bring her to tears, but in the end she begins to make progress. And yet, the first publication (and the professor takes her out not somewhere, but to the races in Ascot, where the flower of the English aristocracy gathers) refuses to be unsuccessful: having learned to pronounce the words correctly, Eliza did not stop speaking the language of the London lower class - which shocks the professor's mother and fascinates Freddie Ainsford Hill, young man from an aristocratic family.

The day of the embassy ball is coming. Eliza passes the exam brilliantly, despite the attempts of Higgins' former student, the Hungarian Karpati, to find out who she really is. After the ball, Higgins revels in his success, completely oblivious to the girl, which causes her to protest. A conversation takes place between her and the professor, from which it becomes clear that Eliza has changed not only externally, but also internally, that she is not a toy in the professor's hands, but a living person.

The heroine leaves Higgins' house, meets her admirer on the way - Freddie, who is constantly spinning around her house, and goes with him to the poor quarter where she once lived. There, Eliza is in for a surprise - Dolittle's father got rich and decided to finally marry her mother. It turns out that after his visit to the house of Professor Higgins, he, struck by the natural oratory gift of Eliza's father, wrote a letter famous philanthropist, recommending Mr. Dolittle as the most original moralist of our time. As a result, the London scavenger got a huge inheritance - and with it all the vices of bourgeois society, which he so condemned. But his daughter’s problems are not interesting to him, and Eliza goes to the house of Professor Higgins’s mother, who sincerely sympathizes with her.

Soon the professor himself appears there. There is another skirmish between him and Eliza, during which Eliza declares to Higgins that she can live fine without him. She doesn't even need to go to work a flower shop - she can give phonetics lessons, and there will definitely be no end to the students. Outraged Higgins goes home. On the way, he nevertheless takes off his mask and admits to himself, and therefore to the viewer, that, in general, he is used to Eliza - such an awkward declaration of love through the lips of a convinced bachelor. In his office, he turns on a recording with the voice of his student, made when she first appeared at his house. Eliza enters the room quietly. Noticing the girl, Higgins straightens up in his chair, pulls his hat over his eyes and says his catchphrase: "Eliza, where the hell are my night shoes?"

By adapting Pygmalion for musical theater, the authors tried to treat the text of the original source as carefully as possible, and yet the emphasis in the play shifted - the story of the transformation of the main character from a vulgar flower girl into a charming young lady came to the fore, and Shaw's philosophical reasoning faded into the background, if not into the background. In addition, the heroine of Pygmalion eventually marries Freddie and opens a flower shop, and then a vegetable shop (this is stated in the afterword to the play, written by the playwright himself, who did not really believe in romantic love). Eliza Bernard Shaw has no illusions about Higgins - "Galatea does not completely like Pygmalion: he plays a too godlike role in her life, and this is not very pleasant." Eliza Lowe and Lerner still return to their teacher - the audience would not accept the parting of the main characters. Alan Jay Lerner himself explained his decision to change the ending: “I omitted the afterword 'My Fair Lady', because in it Shaw explains how Eliza stays not with Higgins, but with Freddie, and I - may Shaw and heaven forgive me! "I'm not sure he's right."

The earliest listeners to My Fair Lady were Broadway star Mary Martin (South Pacific, Peter Pan) and her husband Richard Halliday. When Mary Martin heard that Lerner and Lowe were adapting Pygmalion for musical theater, she, aiming for the lead role in a future musical, immediately wanted to hear what they had done. After reviewing several issues (including The Ascot Gavotte and Just You Wait, ’enry’ iggins), Martin didn’t say anything to the authors, but she immediately complained to her husband: “How could it happen that these lovely boys have lost their talent?” Holliday later conveyed her words to Lerner, adding that Just You Wait is very reminiscent of Cole Porter's I Hate Men from Kiss Me Kate, and The Ascott Gavotte's number is "just not funny." Such a reception, given to the future "Fair Lady" by the very first listeners, made a very painful impression on Lerner and even became the cause of real depression. However, neither Lerner nor Lowe still did not see Eliza Dolittle in Mary Martin and did not intend to invite her to the play. The role went to aspiring singer Julie Andrews. Subsequently, Lerner and Lowe themselves teased each other when their work was not going, quoting Mary Martin: "These lovely boys have lost their talent."

The musical premiered on March 15, 1956. The show immediately became wildly popular, tickets were sold out six months in advance. However, the overwhelming success of the musical came as a complete surprise to its creators: “Neither I nor F. Lowe believed that we were the heroes of the occasion. It's just time for something bright, theatrical, something unlike the meeting of two lonely people in dark alley... And "Lady" came out on the posters. " During the year after the premiere, Lowe came to the ticket offices, near which from the night, people eager to see the show were in line, and treated them to coffee. Lowe was looked upon as if he were crazy, and no one could believe that he was the composer who composed My Fair Lady.

The musical has been played 2,717 times on Broadway. It has been translated into eleven languages, including Hebrew, and has walked successfully in more than twenty countries. More than five million copies of the original Broadway cast were sold, and in 1964 George Cukor's film of the same name was released.

Despite the incredible color of the picture, fans of the musical were disappointed. They expected to see Julie Andrews in the role of Eliza, and Audrey Hepburn got the role - by that time, unlike Julie, she was already a star of cinema. Rex Harrison, who played Higgins on Broadway, was not replaced, and the eccentric professor successfully moved from the stage to the big screen, for which he received a well-deserved Oscar.

The musical "My Fair Lady" is still loved by the public. Thanks to producer Cameron McIntosh and director Trevor Nunn, the show can be seen in London. The premiere cast of Professor Higgins was played by Jonathan Price (Peron from the film adaptation of Evita), while Miss Dolittle was played by singer and actress Martin McCutchin.

In Russia, "My Fair Lady" has not left the posters of music and drama theaters... The musical was staged at the theater of A. Kalyagin "Et Cetera" (Moscow). Directed by Dmitry Bertman ( artistic director of the Helikon-Opera Theater), a flower girl from Tottenham Court Road turned out to be a Muscovite Lisa Dulina, who lived near the Hammer and Sickle station. The performance took place partly in Moscow, partly in London, where the Slavic professor Higgins brings his Galatea, the bearer of the colorful Moscow vernacular. The main story line the musical was preserved, but otherwise this production was not much like the original source. In its classical version, the performance is already several years goes on the stage of the Moscow Operetta Theater. On 18 January 2012, the Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg) hosted the premiere of the musical My Fair Lady staged by the Chatelet Theater in Paris. The play is directed by renowned Canadian director Robert Carsen and choreographer Lynne Page. Lerner & Lowe's classic show was the first musical to be staged at the legendary Russian opera house.

The largest Irish playwright and publicist George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. A brilliant orator, a mocker and an intellectual, he actively participated in public life Great Britain late XIX- the beginning of the XX century. For ninety-four years of his life, Bernard Shaw composed 65 plays, 5 novels, great amount critical articles and reviews. In his works, he acts as a master of intellectual drama-discussion, built on sharp dialogues, full of paradoxical situations, destroying all traditional ideas about the theater. Shaw's plays scourge political reaction, normative morality, hypocrisy, hypocrisy. In 1925, the writer was awarded Nobel Prize on literature. Shaw took the title nobel laureate, however, refused the money. Pygmalion isn't Shaw's only piece to become a musical. Plays by Caesar and Cleopatra (musical Her First Roman) and Arms have also been adapted for musical theater. and the Man (Chocolate Soldier). In Russia "Pygmalion" was first staged in Moscow, in 1914. Julie Andrews starred as Eliza on Broadway, but Audrey Hepburn starred in the film version of the musical. The work of the actress in this film was evaluated controversially. Firstly, she did not sing herself, although there is a recording of two songs from the musical performed by Audrey. Apparently, her vocals did not seem bright enough for such a grandiose film project, so it was decided to involve Marnie Nixon, a singer who already had the experience of dubbing a star - Natalie Wood, who played the role of Mary in the film adaptation of West Side Story, and Deborah Kerr sang in her voice. who played the main character in the film version of The King and I. Interestingly, neither Natalie nor Audrey won the Academy Awards, for which both films were nominated. Audrey was also reproached for not being very convincing in the role of a simple London flower girl and that her innate aristocracy would not hide any makeup and distorted speech. This is not surprising - the actress really " blue bloods". Audrey was born in Belgium, her mother is a Dutch baroness. Full name actresses - Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Rustone. And yet, Audrey, unexpectedly for her angelic appearance, demonstrates the bright talent of a characteristic actress, and all the more striking is her transformation from a vulgar creep into a shining beauty. Would such a transformation have happened for prim and correct Julie, who, moreover, had more modest external data? Julie was very worried that she did not get the role of Eliza. Andrews' candidacy was supported by Rex Harrison, she had criticism on her side. Until the very beginning of filming, Julie hoped, if not to play herself, then at least to dub Hepburn. But it didn't work out. Ironically, however, in 1964, when My Fair Lady was released, it was Julie who won the Oscar for Best Actress (Mary Poppins).